All research fraud articles
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NewsMaterials science journal withdraws 500 papers from fake conferences
Off-topic and nonsense articles in Materials Today: Proceedings may have come from conferences that never happened, created by paper mills to ‘launder’ publications
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News
AI picks out fake science
Textual analysis tool flags manuscripts that may have come from paper mills
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News
AI-generated images could make it almost impossible to detect fake papers
Some researchers worry that deepfake technology could be a new threat to scientific integrity, but others think traditional image manipulation is here to stay
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News
China sanctions hundreds of researchers following fraud investigation
Paper mills investigation results in funding bans and fines
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News
Ivermectin debacle exposes flaws in meta-analysis methodology
Health researchers warn that taking studies at face value is a luxury that they can no longer afford
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News
Publishers grapple with an invisible foe as huge organised fraud hits scientific journals
Hundreds of fake research manuscripts from paper mills have flooded biochemical and biomedical journals in recent years. But how do you stop large-scale fraud barely anything is known about?
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Business
Russian Covid-19 vaccine data raises questions
Suspected data manipulation or fabrication casts shadows over safety trial report for hastily-approved Sputnik V
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News
Junior researchers less likely to blow the whistle on research misconduct
Fear of retribution and their precarious position may be holding them back
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News
Senior Chinese research integrity official investigated for academic fraud
More than 60 papers co-authored by Xuetao Cao have been flagged on PubPeer for problematic images
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Review
The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
Drew Gwilliams reviews a book about how science should work, and what happens when it all goes wrong
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News
Protein chemist barred from US government funding for a decade
Former University of Alabama researcher found guilty of falsifying x-ray crystallographic data more than 10 years after red flags first raised
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News
Blockchain to help scholarly publishing fight fraud
Platform can time-stamp data to authenticate research
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News
Anonymous survey sheds light on research misconduct
Most academic and industrial scientists polled had either committed or witnessed unethical practices
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News
Crackdown on science fraud in China after string of scandals
More than 500 researchers punished after latest fiasco as government launches ethics code of conduct
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News
Support for stiffer sanctions for science fraud in US
Vast majority of the American public wants research fraud criminalised, with many supporting prison sentences
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Opinion
Misconduct: on the blog and in the open
When formal investigations of research misconduct are opaque and sluggish, it is inevitable that chemists will take to the blogs to debate suspicious papers, says Mark Peplow
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News
Scientists petition Serbian government to tackle misconduct
Letter alleges plagiarism, cronyism and other bad practices are tolerated and widespread
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News
How do you solve a problem like misconduct?
The world’s scientific bodies have come together to tackle fraud and plagiarism, but the problem will be tough to crack
